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The Plumbing Nightmare Continues
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants
Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the manufacturer as none of their suppliers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep manufacturer will not ship overnight. Expected transit time of the part? 2–3 weeks Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get […]
Tags: home-ownership, nightmare, plumbing
Plumb Fun
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Thanks to the loverly weather we’ve been having in Iowa, our house is having some plumbing issues. The subzero temperatures caused the supply line pipes to our downstairs tub to freeze, but fortunately not burst. Unfortunately, when they thawed a bit it freed up some of the years of lime/calcium/crud in the pipes. The build-up […]
Tags: home-ownership, plumbing, repair
Winter Weather Driving Tips
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants
Given the number of intellectually-challenged persons I had to drive around to get home over lunch today1, I figured it was long past time to write up my best winter weather driving tips. If the weather looks worse than you feel comfortable driving in, then don’t. Stay home and save the rest of us some headaches. […]
Tags: driving, Weather, Winter
Tweeting Geniuses
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
While working on my changes to the VectorLover theme I happened to look at CoffeeBear’s stats; where I noticed somethng odd. An ancient post (all the way back to ’04!) was receiving a couple of hits from Twitter of all places. Now I’ll admit the post was not my best piece of writing — in […]
Tags: Twitter
Dental Heck
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
As mentioned before, I’ve been going to the dentist getting my teeth fixed up after slightly more than a few years of neglect1. Monday started the next round of pain2. A couple more fillings on one side of my mouth and a sealer to try preventing a cavity from forming on a back-tooth. The dentist […]
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